Each month Statistics Canada releases comprehensive data on the state of Canada’s labour markets. The Survey of Employment, Payroll and Hours is based on firm-level administrative payroll data. This is distinct from the Labour Force Survey, which is another important source of labour market information.

Change in Employment, by Province

Displays the change in payroll employment and employment rates. First, since the start of Alberta’s recession. Then compares provinces.

Alberta

All Provinces

By Sector

Growth in employment, by sector.

Public vs Private

Earnings

Real Wages in Alberta

Sectoral Earnings

## # A tibble: 2 x 2
## # Groups:   GEO [2]
##   GEO     change
##   <chr>    <dbl>
## 1 Alberta  0.126
## 2 Canada   0.146

Hourly Wages vs Salaries

Counterfactuals

If earnings grew with Canada

If overtime remained unchanged

If OT, Hours, and Sectoral Composition Unchanged

##   Ref_Date                 type    value
## 1 May 2020                 Data 1256.020
## 2 May 2020       Fixed Hours/OT 1258.563
## 3 May 2020  Fixed Sectoral Emp. 1293.716
## 4 May 2020 National Wage Growth 1332.390

##   Ref_Date                             type    value
## 1 May 2020                             Data 1256.020
## 2 May 2020 If Wage Growth\nMatched Canada's 1295.439

Oil and Gas Detail

Diffusion Index

## # A tibble: 1 x 2
##   GEO    share
##   <chr>  <dbl>
## 1 Canada 0.949

Vacancy-to-Unemployment

 

Created by Trevor Tombe

ttombe@ucalgary.ca